Awards for Srinivas, Anoorada
At a glittering ceremony held in Malaysia recently, the International Tamil Film Awards were presented. Playback singers Srinivas, Anoorada Sriram, Karthik and Chinmayi were among those who were presented awards at the function.
Srinivas bagged the male playback singer in the Tamil film category for the year 2002. The award was for excellent rendition of the song 'Apple Penne Nee Yaro' in the film 'Rojakoottam', music for
which was scored by Bharadwaj.
The best female singer award went to Anoorada Sriram for one of the biggest hits in recent times, 'O Podu' in Gemini (music for this film too was handled by Bharadwaj).
In the newcomers' category, Karthik won the award among males (he had sung many hit songs including numbers in 'Baba') while Chinmayi was selected as the best female singer in this category for her soulful rendering of the title song in 'Kannathil Muthamittal' (music by A R Rehman).
All the four singers were present at the ceremony in Malaysia on October 12.
Bharadwaj himself received the Best Music Director award and Pa Vijay was selected the best lyricist.
The best actor award went to Vikram while Simran was adjudged the best actress. 'Kannathil Muthamittal' was picked as the best film. The film also secured the Best Director award for Maniratnam. Ravi K Chandran was selected as the best cinematographer.
This is the first time that Tamil film awards have been presented at a function held on an international scale.
